FF Scala Sans

Beginning in 1993, Martin Majoor enhanced his elegant serif FF Scala with a sans serif companion, making the family one of the first with a sans/serif pairing. Like the serif, it is its simplicity that makes FF Scala Sans so captivating. It achieves this modern look without resorting to a hi-tech, mechanical pastiche, instead drawing its basic shape from the skeleton of classic Roman serifs. As in FF Scala, oldstyle figures are standard, a rare thing in a sans serif. There is also a collection of FF Scala Hands included in all weights, following in the delightful tradition of printer’s manicules.

Noel Gallagher’s statement that reading fiction is a “fucking waste of time” and readers are “putting themselves a tiny little bit above the rest of us” – is a valuable contribution.

Cathy Nicol: Isle of Joy

Vince Smith met bandmates Jim Kelly and Nancy Gibbs at a Sex Pistols concert, where he tried to kiss Sid Vicious’ guitar and got a bloody nose. Together they formed Aftershock, and for a while they made a lot of noise, a bit of money and caused a sensation wherever they went.